Germany’s Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, has presented a plan to cap the price of electricity used by energy-intensive industries. The move aims to insulate the sector against sharp cost increases. However, the proposal has already sparked criticism. The cap would be set at €0.06 ($0.07) per gigawatt-hour (GWh) and would apply until 2030. At least
Glioblastoma is a malignant brain tumor known for its aggressiveness and difficulty to treat. However, a new hydrogel treatment has shown promising results in eliminating glioblastoma tumors in mice. The Hydrogel Treatment The hydrogel treatment uses paclitaxel, a chemotherapy drug, to create nano-sized filaments for insertion into the brain. The hydrogel covers the cancer cavity
Anomaly detection is a valuable tool in distinguishing normal data from abnormal data. It is achieved by assigning anomaly scores to each instance, which are then ranked and evaluated. However, using a static unsupervised streaming anomaly detector can be difficult to dynamically adjust anomaly score calculation. To overcome this, a research team led by Prof.
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have discovered that senior dogs with cognitive decline experience disruptions similar to those found in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This study suggests that dogs could provide a good model for research on Alzheimer’s. The Study The researchers recorded the brain waves of 28 senior dogs, some with cognitive
The Moon is not the only object orbiting Earth; there are a small number of quasi-satellites that do as well. Kamo’oalewa is a near-Earth asteroid that was discovered in 2016, and it is one of these quasi-satellites. Its orbit changes over time, but it always stays near Earth. It reflects light the same way the
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been causing unease among Hollywood writers, with chatbots that write or rewrite scripts being one of the key concerns. The Writers Guild of America is currently striking for better pay, but AI is looming as a rising anxiety. AI-Powered Screenwriting AI chatbots could potentially be used to create a rough first
In March 2023, a group of researchers and tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, published an open letter calling for a pause in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. They recommended that labs halt the training of technologies stronger than OpenAI’s GPT-4, the most sophisticated language-generating AI system, for at least six months. While
Los Alamos scientists have achieved light amplification using electrically driven devices based on solution-cast semiconductor nanocrystals. These tiny specs of semiconductor matter are made through chemical synthesis, also known as colloidal quantum dots. This breakthrough, reported in the journal Nature, opens the door to a completely new class of electrically pumped lasing devices. These laser
Photosynthesis is a crucial process for sustaining life on earth, but many aspects of it remain a mystery. Scientists have been working to unlock the secrets of photosynthesis for years, and now researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have succeeded in cracking a key secret of
Out of the thousands of meteorites found on Earth, around 188 have been confirmed to have come from Mars. So how did they get here? When asteroids hit Mars with enough force, the debris is blasted into space and eventually finds its way to Earth. While astronomers once believed only the most powerful impacts could
An international team of researchers conducted a five-year study of 647 Danish babies to learn more about the viral makeup of the human gut. Astonishingly, nappy samples contained approximately 10,000 species of virus, which is ten times the number of bacterial species found in the same children. Most of the viruses had never been described
Researchers at the University of Connecticut have discovered a method for creating topological superconductors by manipulating quantum particles in thin layers of ordinary superconductors. Superconductors can conduct electric current without any resistance or energy loss, making them a potential game-changer in many fields, from energy transmission to quantum computing to MRI machines. However, creating superconductors
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheibel, have discovered that materials made of spider silk can be modified to specifically promote the growth and proliferation of living cells of a certain type. This breakthrough in regenerative medicine comes from the ability to generate cell-specific effects of spider silk materials by
A team of surgeons from two US hospitals have successfully repaired a major malformation in a fetal brain. The surgery, which was guided by ultrasound and involved embolization, treated a rare prenatal condition known as vein of Galen malformation. This condition allows blood to flow dangerously fast through the brain after birth. The successful procedure
Biomass energy is a type of renewable energy that is stored within biomass through photosynthesis. It is the only carbon source that is renewable. China has abundant biomass resources, and previous studies have emphasized the potential energy use of biomass resources in China. However, there has been no systematic study of energy conservation and carbon
